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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Ideology Materialized.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.
(a) Truth.
(b) Triumph.
(c) Perception.
(d) Pinnacle.

2. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Similarity.
(d) Familiarity.

3. Debord uses whose definition of culture in Chapter 8?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Ruge.
(c) Marx.
(d) Hegel.

4. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Desire.
(c) Limitless artificiality.
(d) Limited reality.

5. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?
(a) Presidents.
(b) Philosophers.
(c) Media stars.
(d) Workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do societies focus on in Chapter 5 to enable them to span time?

2. Production was initially a means of what?

3. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?

4. What science did the Utopians take as their model?

5. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?

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